On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:27:30 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

Perhaps you can help me here Bob (my dept has no undergrads so I don't
have any contact with this side of things)

1) Fees are paid by student loan with fairly easy repayment terms - I'm
pretty clear about this part;

2) How does cost of living/rent work? My limited understanding was that
was means tested with the possibility of the government paying some -
but for 2 working parents, it was likley the government contribution is
more or less zero?

There a maintenance loan of about £5000 if living away from home - it's
lumped in with the tuition loan. Rather less if living at home - about
£4000. A component of that is means tested and students with 'rich' (FSVO
rich) parents will lose about 35% of that.

It's lumped in with the fees loan and there are no increased repayments.

3) If (2) is there a different type of student loan similar to (1) that
can be obtained?

It's a different loan but it's all lumped into one for repayment purposes.

2/3 was the bit I thought parents ended up paying unless darling
Willoughby was of a mind to take 3 part time MacDonalds and evening pub
jobs on to pay his own way (which is one of the typical newspaper
lines).

It's not enough, certainly if living away from home - but then the grant
never was either. Many students have part time jobs but that's to be
expected.

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